It has impacted the game, bots are always going to go after them. I hope people are reporting the bots and they are getting banned.
But I have come across a few people who I thought were bots, I was being lazy and started to salvage one guys wrecks as I just needed one item to make an Ikitsura, but then he left his MTU and I helped him pick it up and we got talking. Was amusing because until he left his MTU I thought he was a bot.